"Carl Ellis" wrote in message
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"Tom" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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If you do a web search you'll see reports of between 200,000 to
500,000
popular votes favoring Gore and of course an argument of what that
really
means.

Considering that an estimate 800K to 1.2M illegal aliens voted in the
2000
election, those numbers are dubious. And that's not to mention the
several
states that had very quesionable vote totals...that all got lost in the
Florida flare-up.

Do you have a reference for those numbers? I would believe some, but that
is awfully large.

It was derived from the numbers of illegals that apply for services divided
by high/low estimates from INS. I don't remember the exact source, but it
came out in May, 2001.

AAMOF, my M-I-L, who is 88, has voted in every election since 1936, after
coming over from Scotland when she was nine yers old, and has NEVER become a
US citizen (as she's now finding out the hard way as she applies for
assisted living for seniors).


Well, then let's talk about the flawed voter roll purges that occured in
both Texas and Florida.
http://dir.salon.com/politics/featur...ile/index.html

Really credible source, Salon is.

Or the shenanigans in Tennessee
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=10589

UH HUH! Sounds like what Jessie Jackson was screeching about in Florida.


Plenty of dirt to go around.

Better find something better than anecdote for sources.


But .... the original assertion was that an overwhelming number of
Americans
voted for Bush.
Simply visit http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/2000presgeresults.htm and look at
the
tabular data, you'll see the results.

The argument is AMERICANS...and that implies ONCE, LIVING, NOT A FELON...

Consider the Nader votes anti-Bush and Buchanan anti-Gore, add up the
other
candidates if you like in a similar fashion. Nowhere near overwhelming
and
the results seem to slightly favor Gore.

I remember that in the first hours of the election returns Bush had a 54-46%
lead over Gore (at about the 35-45% of votes cast). Considering that rural
areas, Bush's strong points, are LATER in getting their numbers in,
something funky happened.

Recall the election messes that occurred in Pennsylvania, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Oregon, New Mexico, New York.

They never did look into the counties that had HUGH turnouts by dead people,
including several counties that Gore won that were very typical Bush
territory...even more votes cast than people living there (New York and
Penn.).